Death of a Red Heroine
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Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.
A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career—perhaps even his life—to see justice done.
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Series
10 primary booksInspector Chen Cao
Inspector Chen Cao is a 10-book series with 11 primary works first released in 2000 with contributions by Qiu Xiaolong.
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This is not your standard police procedural; it is as much interested in the place of a good Chinese person in late twentieth century China.
Perhaps my ignorance of Chinese manners and behaviour was the cause of my occasionally faltering in my enjoyment of the story, but it won me over and I will seek out the second in the series.
Politics indeed, the setting is fascinating. reminds me a little of Your Republic is Calling You in terms of the capitalist vs socialist ideological conflict.
